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After a break of almost two weeks, medi bayreuth will start the last third of the bundesliga on saturday (6 p.M.): in the top game of the 23rd round of the bundesliga, medi bayreuth will play the first game of the season. The fourth-placed team from bayreuth plays host to second-placed alba berlin on the second day of the season.

Basketball bundesliga

Alba berlin – medi bayreuth

the last time the teams met was just a few days ago and went badly for bayreuth: in the cup semifinals in ulm, coach raoul korner's team suffered a 74-96 defeat and missed out on a place in the final by a wide margin.

For mario gotze is in the system of lucien favre probably still no place.

Before the opening game of the 3. Matchday against eintracht frankfurt on friday (20.30 o’clock) the primary question is not whether the winning goal scorer of the 2014 world cup final will be used for the first time in this bundesliga season for borussia dortmund. The question is whether the professional soccer player will sit on the bench or on the tribune.

At least that’s what his coach’s performance shows quite clearly. "The truth is: we have an enormous number of players in the midfield," favre replied when asked about gotze’s chances of playing: "we have eight or nine players. He can also play the nine and a half. But there we have kagawa and marco reus. That’s the truth, that’s the fact."

After declaring his love for his new club, gertjan verbeek went straight to the training ground. Some applause from the fans, a few words to his new team – then the 51-year-old cautiously followed the practice session at 1. FC nurnberg.

On wednesday, the dutchman, who is known for being a strict representative of his profession, was already allowed to put an end to his reserved attitude. "I’ve been head coach for a while now, and of course I have a few ideas. We want to play attractive football and have our own face," verbeek had previously made clear his own signature in prospect.

A lot of experience – that’s probably what the management of the franconians is hoping for after the unsuccessful experiment with the young coach michael wiesinger, who tried hard but was ultimately too reticent. "Gertjan has worked very successfully in holland as a head coach over the last ten years," recalled "club" sports director martin bader on tuesday at the presentation of the surprise man and equipped him with a contract until mid-2015.

"The IOC must make a decision to take the pressure off the shoulders of the athletes," the 26-year-old berliner told the newspapers of the "funke mediengruppe". "It’s also about fairness in the preparation: some athletes are currently allowed to train outdoors, others are not. In some places there are no doping controls at the moment."

The international olympic committee had previously announced that it would make a decision within a period of four weeks on the options for staging the olympic games, which are still scheduled to take place on 24 and 24 june. July to 9. August planned summer games in tokyo to be discussed. The postponement for one year was considered the most probable scenario.

"Since games this year have become rather unrealistic, it would be better to quickly look for a date next year," said schachmann. "But there’s also a rat’s tail attached to it ? For example, the olympic village is already fully rented for the period after the games."The professional of the team bora-hansgrohe had last still won the traditional tour paris-nice, when because of the coronavirus already numerous sport events had been postponed.